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'Saaf saaf bolna calculator taiyaar rakho' - Virat Kohli gives pep talk to Bangalore during Women's T20 League 2023

Former Bangalore Men's skipper Virat Kohli visited his women's counterparts and gave them a pep talk ahead of their game against UP.

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Former Bangalore Men's skipper Virat Kohli visited his women's counterparts ahead of their game against UP. The Red Brigade was struggling as they had lost their first five games of the Women's T20 League 2023. With a very minuscule chance of qualifying for the eliminator, the team was gearing up for their return fixture against UP on March 15 at the D.Y. Patil Stadium, Mumbai.

In the reverse fixture, the Smriti Mandhana-led side lost by 10 wickets. Meanwhile, in pursuit of their first win, the team bowled well and chased down the target of 136 runs to register their first win. Meanwhile, ahead of the game, Kohli, who is currently on national duty, visited his franchise to meet the women players. He gave them a pep talk ahead of the game.

Not winning an Indian T20 League title doesn't mean I don't get excited: Virat Kohli

"I’ve been playing ITL for 15 years. And I haven’t won it yet. But that doesn’t stop me from being excited every year. That’s all I can do. That’s the effort I can put into every game and every tournament that I play. If we win, great. If we don’t, then I am not going to go to my grave thinking that if only I had won an ITL, I would be a happy man. It doesn’t happen like that. So always think about the opportunity that you have rather than how bad it is right now. There is always a flip side to it, and it could always be worse than this. And the fact that we haven’t won the ITL, but I still feel that we have the best fans in the world. Only because we were always committed to every game that we played for Bangalore. That has been the most special thing for our fans. There’s no guarantee of giving you a cup every year, but there’s a guarantee of giving your 110% every year, and that’s all you can strive to do," Virat Kohli said during the interaction with Bangalore Women.

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